Nobel Prize

Nobel Committee calls on Iran to free imprisoned Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi

Mohammadi, 53, who has been imprisoned repeatedly in her three-decade campaign for women's rights, was last week sentenced to a new prison term of 7-1/2 years, a group supporting her said on Sunday.

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NARGES MOHAMMADI sits in her apartment in Tehran, Iran, on December 18, 2024.
US President Donald Trump seen in the Oval Office in the White House in Washington, DC, US, January 14, 2026

Mistrust of Trump is reshaping the global order - opinion

Global trust in America is eroding while erratic leadership, private power, and strategic uncertainty are reshaping the world order.

|ByMICHAEL J. SALAMON, LOUIS LIBIN
Baba Baruch, heir of Baba Sali, speaks to prime minister Yitzhak Shamir during traditional ceremonies in Netivot, 1988.

This week in Jewish history: Nobel prize winners, biochemists, and the Baba Sali

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

|BySTEVEN DRUCKER
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is pictured arriving for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, shown attending a separate event later in the day, in this combination of images taken at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 15, 2026.

Maria Corina Machado gives Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal

The Norwegian Nobel Institute has said the prize cannot be transferred, shared or revoked.

|ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israeli-American Nobelist Daniel Kahneman, who reframed economic decision-making, dies at 90

Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in economics for “having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science.”

MARCH 27, 2024ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
Former US president Barack Obama awards Daniel Kahneman the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 at the White House

Norway's deplorable choice for Nobel Prize candidate - opinion

Norway is turning a blind eye to war crimes, trampling international humanitarian law, and behaving in a manner that contravenes every international treaty.

MARCH 4, 2024ByDAVID BEN-BASAT
A DEMONSTRATION in support of Gazan Palestinians takes place outside the Norwegian Parliament, in Oslo, in November. UNRWA heads sit quietly by in anticipation of being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as if they were not party to aiding a terror group, the writer asserts.

UNRWA makes the Nobel Peace Prize nominations shortlist

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 will be announced at 11 am on Friday, October 11, 2024, and is chosen by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

FEBRUARY 7, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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Three Israeli groups nominated for Nobel Peace prize amid Hamas war

EcoPeace Middle East and two sister peace movements – one Palestinian and one Israeli – were nominated for the prize.

JANUARY 7, 2024ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
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Israeli, Palestinian women sister orgs. nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

The two organizations have closely cooperated over the last three years, demanding both Palestinian and Israeli leadership listen to the “Mothers' Call” to stop the conflict.

DECEMBER 23, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli, Palestinian women sister orgs. nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Kissinger's legacy: Can statesmanship end the Israel-Hamas war? - opinion

Faced with a devastated, post-Hamas Gaza, Kissinger would have created a new political energy and international alignment.

DECEMBER 8, 2023ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
HENRY KISSINGER, then serving as US national security advisor, speaks to the press at Orly Airport ahead of talks on the Paris Peace Accords with the Vietnamese, June 1973.

Tehran attacks 'anti-Iranian' move to award jailed activist Nobel Peace Prize

Mohammedi, a campaigner for women's rights and against the death penalty, is currently serving a 12-year prison sentence

OCTOBER 6, 2023ByREUTERS
Nobel Committee Chair Berit Reiss-Andersen announces the winner of Nobel Peace Prize for 2023.

Nobel Chemistry prize awarded for discovery of quantum dots used in LED lights

Established in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and chemist Alfred Nobel, the prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace have been awarded since 1901.

OCTOBER 4, 2023ByREUTERS
A view of a screen inside the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, where the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is announced, in Stockholm

Nobel Prize accidentally reveals chemistry prize winners ahead of time

The award-giving institute said the decision was still hours away.

OCTOBER 4, 2023ByREUTERS
A view of a screen inside the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, where the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is announced, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 4, 2023

Gigawatt Global sister NGO to fuel sustainability in African communities

Israeli solar pioneer Josef Abramowitz made the announcement days before he hopes to secure a Nobel Peace Prize for his climate initiatives.

OCTOBER 3, 2023ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
From right: Gigawatt Global CEO Josef Abramowitz, Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema, President Isaac Herzog and a Zambian student studying in Israel at the President's Residence in August 2023.